TOPIC: Learning Problems & Disabilities

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Relevant Packets Developed by Our Center

Continuing Education Modules
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: New Directions for Mental Health in Schools
• Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Personalizing Learning and Addressing Barriers to Learning: Two Continuing Eduction Units

Quick Training Aids & Tutorials
• Reengaging Students in Learning
• Attention Problems in School

Quick Finds
• Response to Intervention
• "Individuals with Disabilities and Education Act" and Accomodations/Inclusion

Guide Notes
• Common Psychosocial Problems of School-Aged Youth: Developmental Variations, Problems, Disorders and Perspectives for Prevention and Treatment
• RTI and Classroom and Schoolwide Learning Supports: A Guide for Teachers and Learning Supports Staff

Practice Notes
• Helping and Socialization
• Prereferral Interventions
• Learning Supports: Enabling Learning in the Classroom
• Response to Intervention

Information Sheet
• About School Engagement and Re-Engagement

Information Resource
• About What Young People are Experiencing During the Pandemic
• Schools and the Challenge of LD and ADHD Misdiagnoses

Resource and Technical Aids
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs
• Guiding Parents in Helping Children Learn
• Organizations with Resources Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Catalogue of Clearinghouses, Technical Assistance Centers, and Other Agencies
• Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools
• Students and Psychotropic Medication: The School's Role
• Where to Get Resource Materials to Address Barriers to Learning

Introductory Packets on System, Program/Process Concerns, & Psychosocial Problems
• Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning
• Attention Problems: Intervention and Resources
• Cultural Concerns in Address Barriers to Learning
• Least Intervention Needed: Toward Appropriate Inclusion of Students with Special Needs

Featured Articles in Center Newsletter/Journal
• Countering LD and ADHD False Positive Diagnoses: Another Pandemic Challenge
• Enabling Learning in the Classroom
• Ideas into Practice: Self Study to Enhance Classroom-Focused Enabling
• Opening the Classroom Door
• Reengaging Students in Learning at School
• Response to Intervention
• Revisiting Learning Problems and Learning Disabilities
• Teaching Teachers to Enable Learning in the Classroom

Books & Monographs
• The School Leader's Guide to Student Learning Supports: New Directions for Addressing Barriers to Learning
• The Implementation Guide to Student Learning Supports: New Directions for Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Revisiting Learning and Behavior Problems: Moving Schools Forward
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: In the Classroom and Schoolwide

Recent Chapters
• Schoolwide Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Mapping a School's Resources to Improve their Use in Preventing and Ameliorating Problems
• Personalizing Classroom Instruction to Account for Motivational and Developmental Differences

• About Learning Disabilities
• Academic Integrity: Accounting for Students with Disabilities
• Clarifying the Social Roots of the Disproportionate Classification of Racial Minorities and Males with Learning Disabilities
• LD Basics
• Learning Disabilities: Definitions, Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Intervention Strategies
• Online Activities and Social Media for Teenagers with LD/ADHD
• Learning Problems
• Prevention Strategies for Students at Risk of Leaning Disabilities
• The social construction of Learning Disabilities
• Social Media and Students with Disabilities A Resource Document
• Students With Learning Disabilities: Homework Problems and Promising Practices
• QuickStats: Percentage of Youths Aged 5-17 Years Ever Diagnosed as Having a Learning Disability and/or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Related Agencies and Websites

• Council for Learning Disabilities (CLD)
• Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD)
• LDOnline
• Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA)
• National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)
• National Center on Universal Design for Learning
• Special Education Resources for General Educators

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